Insiders Guide To Quality Affordable Healthcare

Author : Lawrence Lazarus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733519205
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insider's Guide to Quality, Affordable Healthcare written by Lawrence Lazarus and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of being overwhelmed with escalating healthcare costs, find your doctors more focused on their computer than on you, and want to be more in command of your healthcare decisions? If you're looking for easy-to-apply strategies for obtaining high quality medical care and reducing healthcare expenses, this book is for you. The authors are doctors with decades of experience in treating patients and their families. They have written this book to serve as your guide and share the inside story about how the U.S. healthcare system really works, so you are empowered to: find the best doctors and medical specialists and reduce your medical expenses prevent medical errors that account for more deaths each year than car accidents obtain a second opinion from a specialist who may save your life take advantage of the Affordable Health Care Act and other insurance options secure a healthcare advocate ("guardian angel") take more control of your health and obtain the highest quality healthcare Finally, a user-friendly guide to help everyone choose the highest quality healthcare and learn how to contain their out-of-pocket costs.

Author : Andrew C. Agwunobi
Publisher : ACHE Management
ISBN 13 : 9781640550995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Insider's Guide to Working with Healthcare Consultants written by Andrew C. Agwunobi and published by ACHE Management. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiring a consulting firm can be a daunting prospect. Do you really need consultants? If you do, how do you know you are getting the best value for your money? An Insider's Guide to Working with Healthcare Consultants: How to Achieve Exceptional Results answers those questions.With his dual perspective as a hospital CEO and a healthcare consultant, author Andrew C. Agwunobi is uniquely qualified to help hospital leaders become masters of the successful consulting engagement. He explains: When--and whether--to hire consultantsHow to choose the right consultantsHow to negotiate the right priceHow to lead an engagement to the desired conclusionHow to sustain improvements This insider's guide includes tips from 40 leading consultants to help clients establish and maintain mutually beneficial relationships. Real-world case studies illustrate common business problems and solutions, and a checklist at the end of each chapter emphasizes key considerations. Nearly every major project begins with a mission-critical decision: Hire outside professionals or depend on internal resources? Armed with this book's insights, healthcare leaders can make that decision with confidence and avoid costly mistakes.

Author : Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541797728
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? written by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close. In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles eleven of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive healthcare providers tackle a global set of challenges -- in pursuit of the best healthcare in the world.

Author : William A. Haseltine
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815724160
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affordable Excellence written by William A. Haseltine and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today Singapore ranks sixth in the world in healthcare outcomes well ahead of many developed countries, including the United States. The results are all the more significant as Singapore spends less on healthcare than any other high-income country, both as measured by fraction of the Gross Domestic Product spent on health and by costs per person. Singapore achieves these results at less than one-fourth the cost of healthcare in the United States and about half that of Western European countries. Government leaders, presidents and prime ministers, finance ministers and ministers of health, policymakers in congress and parliament, public health officials responsible for healthcare systems planning, finance and operations, as well as those working on healthcare issues in universities and think-tanks should know how this system works to achieve affordable excellence."--Publisher's website.

Author : Daniel West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling Through the Cracks written by Daniel West and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year there are over 250,000 deaths from medical errors in the US. But there is no tally on the number of patients who lose their quality of life from care designed to protect the hospital from liability, not help the patients. The legal risks associated with caring for patients means that any patient can easily become crippled because of gaping flaws in the US healthcare system.Did you know just 24 hours in a hospital bed can leave a vulnerable patient struggling to walk? Yet patients admitted to hospital stay in bed all day. Why? It is not because of illness. It is about business. Healthcare is less about keeping patients healthy as it is about taking away the responsibility for people to remain healthy to make a profit.Do you know the early warning signs that show a patient will fail rehab and never recover functionally from hospitalization?In his 30 years of practice, at over 70 facilities, Daniel West has seen patients from 25 to 93 unintentionally have their quality of life destroyed because the medical system is more focused on avoiding lawsuits than it is on maintaining quality lives of patients. Would you know where the risks are?Daniel West has restored mobility to hundreds of patients that doctors have written off. He has also seen mistakes in medical judgement that have destroyed lives. The stories contained in this book will open your eyes to what goes on behind the scenes of a hospital or rehab facility. The healthcare system may keep patients breathing. But the decreased quality of life these patients can have because of their decline in mobility is of importance to no one but the patients.Any person with an aging parent, or grandparent, needs to read this book. At some stage, Daniel guarantees a member of your family will need hospital care. Learn to know what to look for, and what questions to ask, to make sure your family members do not fall through the cracks.Being informed will always be the best medicine.

Author : Lisa Yagoda
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118869397
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affordable Care Act For Dummies written by Lisa Yagoda and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential and easy-to-understand guide to the Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act For Dummies is your survival guide to understanding the changes in our health care system and how they benefit you. Written in down-to-earth language, this handy resource outlines new protections under the Affordable Care Act, and walks you through what you—as an individual or an employer—need to do to select the best health insurance plan for your needs. With this book, you get answers to your top questions about how the law applies to you. The folks that bring you the For Dummies line of useful, educational books have teamed up with AARP to give you a hands-on guide that offers insight into how to make the right decisions about health care and improve your quality of life. It is filled with examples, ideas, and information as well as useful takeaways to help you take full advantage of the reforms. Uncover the 10 essential benefits of the Affordable Health Care Act Receive guidance on what will improve if you already have insurance coverage If you don't have coverage, determine which insurance program is right for you and your family and whether you're eligible for financial assistance Find out what changes businesses large and small can anticipate Learn how to avoid scammers who are taking advantage of consumers' confusion Use this complete guide to get the facts about the Affordable Care Act, clear up any misconceptions you may have about the law, and prepare for the health care choices ahead.

Author : Steven Brill
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812996968
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Bitter Pill written by Steven Brill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A tour de force . . . a comprehensive and suitably furious guide to the political landscape of American healthcare . . . persuasive, shocking.”—The New York Times America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare. And it is the first complete, inside account of how President Obama persevered to push through the law, but then failed to deal with the staff incompetence and turf wars that crippled its implementation. But by chance America’s Bitter Pill ends up being much more—because as Brill was completing this book, he had to undergo urgent open-heart surgery. Thus, this also becomes the story of how one patient who thinks he knows everything about healthcare “policy” rethinks it from a hospital gurney—and combines that insight with his brilliant reporting. The result: a surprising new vision of how we can fix American healthcare so that it stops draining the bank accounts of our families and our businesses, and the federal treasury. Praise for America’s Bitter Pill “An energetic, picaresque, narrative explanation of much of what has happened in the last seven years of health policy . . . [Brill] has pulled off something extraordinary.”—The New York Times Book Review “A thunderous indictment of what Brill refers to as the ‘toxicity of our profiteer-dominated healthcare system.’ ”—Los Angeles Times “A sweeping and spirited new book [that] chronicles the surprisingly juicy tale of reform.”—The Daily Beast “One of the most important books of our time.”—Walter Isaacson “Superb . . . Brill has achieved the seemingly impossible—written an exciting book about the American health system.”—The New York Review of Books

Author : Paul Starr
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206666
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remedy and Reaction written by Paul Starr and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of the issues. Tracing health-care reform from its beginnings to its current uncertain prospects, Paul Starr argues that the United States ensnared itself in a trap through policies that satisfied enough of the public and so enriched the health-care industry as to make the system difficult to change. He reveals the inside story of the rise and fall of the Clinton health plan in the early 1990sùand of the Gingrich counterrevolution that followed. And he explains the curious tale of how Mitt RomneyÆs reforms in Massachusetts became a model for Democrats and then follows both the passage of those reforms under Obama and the explosive reaction they elicited from conservatives. Writing concisely and with an even hand, the author offers exactly what is needed as the debate continuesùa penetrating account of how health care became such treacherous terrain in American politics.

Author : Kapil Parakh
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421440296
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching for Health written by Kapil Parakh and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's guide to searching online, communicating with your physician, and maximizing your health from a doctor who works at Google. We've all been there. Late at night, staring into the glow of a phone trying to make sense of some health-related issue that we know nothing about. In Searching for Health, Dr. Kapil Parakh, with Anna Dirksen, brings to life knowledge he gained from working at Google and practicing medicine. Helping readers avoid common pitfalls, get the information they need, and partner effectively with their health team to figure out a path to good health together, the book distills decades of scientific research into a set of easy-to-follow tips. It also incorporates • firsthand accounts of common challenges on the path to good health; • an inside look at how doctors approach and assess health-related information; • techniques that consumers can use to locate evidence-based information online, whether in blogs, social media postings, forums, or news stories; • guidance on how individuals can make the best use of new technologies, such as health trackers and other applications; • recommendations to help patients assess health information for themselves and make decisions based on what they find; • brief summaries of the scientific studies underpinning the recommendations; and • online and offline resources—including handy checklists and worksheets—to help readers prepare for appointments, discuss tough topics with their doctors, and take control of their health. In addition to helping readers find evidence-based information online, the book provides insights into what you can expect from a visit to a doctor or hospital, how to make a decision about surgery or other treatment, what tests doctors will order, which symptom trackers are really effective, and what questions to ask about medications, supplements, and more. Searching for Health is a valuable resource for charting a healthier path through life.

Author : Marty Makary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635574129
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Price We Pay written by Marty Makary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller Business Book of the Year--Association of Business Journalists From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it--now with a new Afterword by the author. "A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of the business of medicine and its elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr. Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable. The Price We Pay offers a road map for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care, and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well--a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care.